Physician decision support system with rapid diagnostic code identification
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1. A patient-side decision support system comprising:
- a hand-held terminal usable during an examination and providing a display and user input device;
a terminal server communicating with the hand-held terminal and holding medical information related to medical diagnoses as linked to a set of diagnosis codes, the terminal server further executing a stored program to;
(a) accept from the user input device of the hand-held terminal, input designating a methodology producing a subset of the diagnoses codes;
(b) present on the display of the hand-held terminal a navigation menu a representation of the subset of the diagnosis codes generated using the selected methodology;
(c) accept from the user input device of the hand-held terminal a selection of a particular diagnosis codes from the subset; and
whereby a comprehensive set of diagnosis codes can be present to the physician on a hand-held device at the time and location of patient examination.
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Abstract
A patient-side support system provides physician support materials keyed to detailed diagnosis codes. The physician is presented with a selection of different methodologies that allow rapid selection of as many as 26,000 detailed diagnosis codes. These rapidly-chosen accurate codes comprise a medical problem list, and they drive the presentation of prewritten prescriptions, educational information for physicians and patient educational materials, thereby facilitating the improvement of health care quality and value.
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1. A patient-side decision support system comprising:
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a hand-held terminal usable during an examination and providing a display and user input device;
a terminal server communicating with the hand-held terminal and holding medical information related to medical diagnoses as linked to a set of diagnosis codes, the terminal server further executing a stored program to;
(a) accept from the user input device of the hand-held terminal, input designating a methodology producing a subset of the diagnoses codes;
(b) present on the display of the hand-held terminal a navigation menu a representation of the subset of the diagnosis codes generated using the selected methodology;
(c) accept from the user input device of the hand-held terminal a selection of a particular diagnosis codes from the subset; and
whereby a comprehensive set of diagnosis codes can be present to the physician on a hand-held device at the time and location of patient examination. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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